On the wire

●DATING GAME · The first message problem. ●BROTHERHOOD · The male friendship recession. ●DATING GAME · Situationships: the relationship category that isn’t. ●STATUS · Granovetter’s weak ties and the people you haven’t met yet. ●BODY · The fitness effect: what the research shows and what it doesn’t. ●ATTRACTION · The confidence variable. ●STYLE · What your shoes communicate before you say anything. ●ATTRACTION · What Buss found.

Hub 02 · 2 dispatches

Attraction

What actually moves the needle: presence, voice, body language, status signals.

DISPATCH No 01

What Buss found.

David Buss's 37-culture mate preference study is the most cited paper in evolutionary psychology. It is also the most misrepresented.

Eleanor Vance 7 min

DISPATCH No 02

The confidence variable.

Confidence appears repeatedly in mate preference research. The mechanism is less obvious than the finding.

Eleanor Vance 6 min